Water systems attacked in Syria, with 250 thousand people who see the supply of water at risk.

Nicole Fraccaroli It is the complaint of UNICEF, with a statement by Geert Cappelaere, Regional Director of UNICEF for the Middle East and North Africa: "Public services, fundamental for children, have been attacked in recent weeks following the fighting in the north West of Syria Part of this sad reality is the repeated attacks against …

Sudan is in peril and we need to listen, to reflect and to act.

Nicole Fraccaroli Sudan is on a trajectory towards a health and humanitarian crisis because of a near total collapse in national governance. For many of the country's residents, who have long faced crippling economic hardship that has been intensifying since the division of the country from South Sudan in 2011, the situation means that they …

Human Rights Watch

Violet Andrew Saliu Human Rights Watch, formally named Helsinki watch, is an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1978. The international organization investigate, reports and advocates on human rights all over the world. For decades, Human Rights Watch has striven in its advocacy against issues concerning violation of human rights, by putting pressures on nations, human …

Internet Access As A Human Right

Nuray Gündoğdu Internet and the right of access to the internet is one of the most important and debated topics in the human rights area. Taking the power of internet as a supporting factor about access to information and improving democracy, as well as human rights and equality into account, it can be said that …

Migration compact, is it the right path?

Samar Elhussien Human history is teeming with migration movements, yet there have been no serious attempts to create a document or instrument that regulates migration and enshrines rights of migrants all over the world. On 10th of December 2018, United Nations held intergovernmental conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, and adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly …

SAVE THE CHILDREN

Adelayo Banjo Save the Children is an international organisation concerned with raising awareness on children’s rights globally. It has existed for over ninety years with its first work done in 1919 during the First World War. The Organisation works via its various branches in almost all the countries of the world. It saves lives through …

UNICEF: A Multi-Disciplinary Field Organization

Nicole Fraccaroli From end 2015 I am the coordinator and responsible for the youth-group of UNICEF Committee in Verona (Italy) and from that moment on I started to support and uphold the values, goals and results for which UNICEF stands for. UNICEF was created soon after the end of World War II with the title …

Violation of Freedom of Expression and Press in Nigeria

Violet Andrew Saliu Nowadays, freedom of expression is acknowledged in international and regional instruments of human rights law. Even though, the concept is not recent. Yet, freedom of expression is under attack in Nigeria media. The issues of human rights are more extensively widespread than customarily understood, as its ramifications cover political, social, cultural and …

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Nuray Gündoğdu The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is a non-governmental human rights organization which was founded by 20 human rights organisations in 1922. It is the second oldest international human rights organisation after Anti-Slavery International in the world. The organization is federating 184 organisations in 112 countries now. The Federation defends the philosophy …

FEMINISM IN AFRICA

Adelayo Banjo Feminism in many African societies is often misconstrued as being anti-men whereas its only objective is the equality of sexes. A feminist as defined by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche is ‘a man or a woman who says yes there is a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it and …